gregory decides to take the motor off the entire thing, all in an effort to keep that boat afloat. the decision the united states coast guard says really probably saved his life because he was able to stay on that boat for about 35 hours until the coast guard rescued him. here now is the commander with the coast guard talking about this entire ordeal. he got into a pretty bad situation. he did not intend to be at sea, but that s where he ended up, and fortunately enough, as mentioned before, he capsized and lost his cell phone and what limited safety gear he had on board, overboard, but he made the decision to stay with the boat, rewrite the boat, and i think that was a very important factor in us being able to ultimately find him with this e-130. we are told at one point, gregory took off his swimming shorts in an effort to try to flag down some boats as well at that airplane. good news at this hour if he is back home, being treated for
california. thank you for your time and for covering the story. thank you. jim? here the story with a happy ending. a routine fishing trip turned it into a stranded at sea saga for one florida man you are looking at the coast guard record of 25-year-old charlie gregory, this on saturday. this is about 12 miles off st. augustine, florida. gregory had been floating in a tiny hole that by then come at you can t, was half submerged in water. for nearly 2 days out there, he saw sharks, suffered sunburn, jellyfish things as well. his father said charlie never lost hope., quote,, he said he s had more conversations with god in that 30 hours and he s had his whole life. my first question is, that s a tiny boat to go out to sea in. how did this happen? jim, so according to the 25- year-old s father, the boat his